iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My love for a good cover and title remains unwavering. Love the imagery here for @rachegabriel.bsky.social and @teachkate.bsky.social's new book!

Healing and hacking the research to practice divide; a teacher's guide to educational research. The cover shows two pieces of blue paper held together by different colored tape

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For those going into a new school year very soon—maybe you're already there!—here's a link to all of the most popular resources we've shared the past few years! (All 100% free, too—and you're welcome to make your own templates and adapt for your classroom/space)

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 15/07/2026

In high school, kids switch classes and hop from subject to subject multiple times a day. 🔄 So when lessons span over many days, ninth-grade English teacher Alicia Bechard prompts her students to revisit key ideas from the day before and refocus with a group recall activity. 🧵1/6

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Also recorded a quick "recap video" of the post—with the top-line results, yes, but also the main takeaways I got from these conversations!

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I think we often have the wrong idea around expertise in education. Expertise is not just “I know this really well so you should listen to me.” It also is, more importantly, “I know this very well so I’m better at listening to you.”

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It's not JUST literacy skills It's not JUST reading stamina It's not JUST "the screens" It's not JUST curriculum choices It's not JUST homework culture It's not JUST over-scheduled students It's not JUST adults not reading, either It's complicated. Pretending otherwise doesn't help.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Who in the last 250 years could have foreseen that a vindictive rapist would take complete control of the US Justice Dept. & find flunkies willing to carry out his commands to persecute his critics & victims? We may recover from this, but where we are now is frankly terrifying. tinyurl.com/5az69ypv

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US justice department reportedly opens criminal inquiry into Trump accuser E Jean Carroll

Officials said to be examining whether Carroll committed perjury in 2022 deposition tied to lawsuits against president

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Two encouraging data points on the road to broad recognition that it's important to get students writing, rather than doing automation-assisted document production. 1st from @drrebeccawinthrop.bsky.social on a large study that showed using AI decreases original ideas. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

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Opinion | What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

"It is not my job to compensate for a person’s erasure of me by making myself more present." I really appreciate this essay by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social — I feel like it presents a new, needed vantage point to a conversation that is getting somewhat tired... sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2026/...

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You Do Not Need an AI Policy — Sonja Drimmer

You do not need an AI policy. Forget the crisis in plagiarism and cheating; that’s yesterday’s news. It is becoming increasingly common for my colleagues, both within my own university and elsewhere,...

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"We often can't know what our work will make possible. The good we do matters. We can tuck our chins, unlock our limbs, aim our bodies & forge deeper, broader, more determined connections. Sometimes those connections hold us up." @mskellymhayes.bsky.social organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...

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Pessimism Is Not Prophecy: On Declining Invitations to Surrender

“Public opinion is not a self-enforcing political mechanism; it’s a mood. If we want public disapproval to become public action, we need to extend worthwhile invitations.”

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Data from Star Trek but he uses 5 billion pounds of water per day and any time you ask him anything he gets the answer wrong.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"Who is the LMS for? At the end of the day, like all platforms, the LMS exists for itself." Your must-read piece of the morning, I think.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

For the record, I believe knowledge is important. Knowing stuff rocks. What I don’t believe, however, is that we should allow companies & NFPs to monopolize the mechanisms by which knowledge is packaged, legitimated, disseminated, & taught. That’s, kinda why we have K16 education institutions, no…?

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other (Freire).” Human beings. Human beings. Human beings.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is a fantastic idea for a reporter to pursue and Chalkbeat remains a great independent media outlet.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

My working theory is that there is no standardizable test that can be deployed to earn the equivalent of college credit bc college classes are not taught to a universal standard and the standards they are taught to are not possible to test in a single session.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

@teachkate.bsky.social and I went here and many other places in this conversation—one that has been in my head ever since recording. Worth a listen, I think! (And would love to know what others think, too!) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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What should reading look like in our classrooms?

Podcast Episode · The Broken Copier · April 1 · 52m

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"There's an existential question in some districts, I know, which is: do we even care about reading books at all?" We can say "yes" with our words, but what about our curriculum choices? What about how we allocate time in the classroom? At the end of the day, our choices = our values...

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Kate Roberts @teachkate.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Marcus is such a thoughtful conversation partner and educator, I’ve been thinking about his ability to gently synthesize and lead ideas since we spoke. Check it out - his whole podcast is 🔥

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

BREAKING: When the governor signs this bill, transgender people can be charged with a felony for using a public bathroom in Idaho. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

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Idaho Senate Republicans send transgender bathroom bill with felony penalties to governor

If Gov. Brad Little signs it, the measure will criminalize restroom use.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/03/2026

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting was demonized and harassed because JK Rowling claimed she was male. Her boxing career was disrupted for over a year. Now, she's been cleared to compete as female after further "sex eligibility reviews." This is going to happen again. www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...

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Olympic boxer Lin Yu-ting cleared to compete after sex eligibility review

Olympic champion Lin Yu-ting has been cleared to return to international competition after World Boxing completed a review of her sex-eligibility status, opening the door for her to fight at the Asia...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/03/2026

"The Trump administration admits to testing conversion therapy on trans prisoners and implies its policy of forcibly detransitioning trans men in prisons has the aim of preserving their fertility." transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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The Trump Administration Admits to Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons

The Trump administration admits to testing conversion therapy on trans prisoners and implies its policy of forcibly detransitioning trans men in prisons has the aim of preserving their fertility.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/03/2026

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration: Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure. Its a horrifying escalation.

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Texas AG Paxton Declares Therapists Affirming Trans Youth To Be Illegal And Child Abuse

The declaration echoes his 2022 efforts to target parents of trans youth with child abuse, and may force conversion therapy on trans youth in the state.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/03/2026

Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker. It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/02/2026

Remind me, when you beat up a blind old refugee and then dump him out to die in the cold, are you the good guys?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026

The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 26/02/2026

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Yes - until you see it firsthand, it’s hard to understand how upsetting and enraging it is to see these guys operate in your community. They are dressed for war, they beat civilians up, they openly antagonize neighbors, they’re masked, they carry people away. Everyone is livid at every scene.

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶 So pretty! www.featherbase.info/zh/home

A picture of green jay feathers (Cyanocorax luxuosus). They are all lined up and organized: primaries, secondaries, coverts, tail feathers. Most of the feathers are gray with a green tip.

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

We may be heading toward a world in which it seems peculiar or even foolish to read an article or book in its entirety. Incredibly, schools - K-12 & higher ed. alike - seem reconciled to becoming the accomplices of Big Tech by pointing us there.

One poster: "this is so scary to me. i recommended a book to a friend recently and she came back to me a day later saying it was really good and i asked if she finished it already and she said “yeah i got chat gpt to summarise each chapter into 3 paragraphs to it was easy to read”

... responding to this earlier post: "Personally, | read a bunch of classics in high
register in college. | guess it was fun. | recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt | got the main gist of things...."

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Jeffrey Austin @jaustinedu.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

One of the things that happened is that reformers + their allies shifted "HQIM" to include only materials produced by a corporate vendor. They don't believe teachers, students + communities can produce "HQIM" because they don't trust or believe in teachers, students + communities.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The best AI-detection/-avoidance software available is a well-compensated teacher who spends time getting to know their students and their work because they have small classes

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Kate Roberts @teachkate.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

So when we keep phones out of class time it works - and kids somehow still learn to use phones. I wonder if there is an attention and effort killing technology out now that we could apply the same theory too? 🧐

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